RE: [Harp-L] Harmonica/harp player & Popper (Martin's response)

[rmcgraw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Thank you Martin for an insightful post.
What's so insightful about it? It strikes me as a classic case of knocking
down a strawman.You critized John Popper, as you have a perfect right to
do; I[and others] disagreed with your criticism and I pointed out that I
infered something extra-musical from the  tone of some of your comments,
and that's something I have the right to do, and I stand by my comments.
What has political correctness got to do with this?
WVa Bob
P.S. If I wrongly inferred, so be it.

>>From: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>The value of the distinction harmonica/harp player escapes me, unless you
>>compare, say, a chromatic classical musician with a blues harp player;
>> but
>>that was not the issue here.
>>
>>     However, John Popper was: and it appears that every time someone
>> says
>>something about him this has to be framed with some kind of "excuse".
>> This
>>is a hamonica forum and debating the merits of John Popper must be a
>>perpectly legitimate topic. I cannot see why he has been placed under
>> some
>>kind of stigma? "The harmonica player whose name I dare not mention ..."
>>and such alike phrasings has been seen here, why?
>>     This demand for a suffocating politeness, or political correctness
>> if
>>one wants to put that twist on it, is just as ridiculous as those
>> "flamers"
>>whose world appears to be crumbling when somebody expresses an opinion
>>radically divergent from theirs. (I know, I received somthing akin to
>>threats of violence in my mailbox some years ago, when I had ideas about
>> a
>>certain harmonica performance.)  Opinions can be debated, even in
>>relatively harsh terms, without this being an infringment on someones
>>"personality" -- and moreover, there is a moderator here to watch over
>>things.
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